Sep 26
Last week, Business Week ran a fairly boring interview with Tim Cook, Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi. Now, though, it’s released a longer interview with just Ive and Federighi, which is kinda interesting. Here are some of the highlights.
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Sep 25
Finding the right lighting for your home can be a tough challenge these days. You can get ceiling-mounted lights, recessed lights, track lights, wall lights—you can even get fancy with a chandelier or a floor lamp! But what about something fun? Look no further than these "Memory lights".
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Sep 25
Designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who teamed with British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, the Ark Nova is touted as the world’s first inflatable concert hall. Kapoor is no stranger to inflatable structures, having created the Leviathan in Paris back in 2011. But that structure was designed to stay put inside the city’s Grand Palais, whereas the Ark Nova is designed to travel around Japan for the Lucerne Music Festival, visiting parts of the country still recovering from the tsunami.
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Sep 24
There are those with free time, and then there’s Joseph Braybrook. This fine bloke managed to recreate some 86,000 square miles of Great Britain within the Minecraft universe, and moreover, it took but a fortnight to concoct. Further justifying his work as more than goofing off, he used Ordnance Survey terrain data in the world’s construction, leading Graham Dunlop, OS Innovation Lab Manager, to proclaim the following: “We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data.” The new universe contains over 22 billion Minecraft blocks, and once players have downloaded the 3.6GB file, they’re free to build at will. Just don’t go planting any US flags — that’s just downright rude.
Via: VG247
Source: BBC
Sep 24
Everybody dreads first dates in their own way. Some worry that they won’t have anything to talk about. Others fear that they’ll be judged by what they say. And a token few are terrified—mortified!—that they’ll spill food all over themselves. For that cadre, I have a solution.
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Sep 24
In some parts of Norway, the sun stays away for three long months of winter. While in Russia, the answer might be UV baths, the sun’s absence in Scandinavia has inspired designers Lisa Pacini and Christine Istad to create Traveling Sun, a mobile multihued LED light sculpture that stands in for the sun.
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Sep 24
Why We Hate Change
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The horrors of New Coke have not been easy for the American public to forget. We do not handle change well, especially when it comes to the brands that we’ve been conditioned to love. But did New Coke really taste that bad? And likewise, is the new Yahoo! logo really that atrocious? And is iOS7 really the flaming train wreck of a redesign that some folks are making it out to be? Or is the problem not within the product, but rather, within ourselves?
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Sep 24
If you are looking for a new lamp that is a bit creepy and looks like it will crawl off your desk on its own, check out this unique and awesome lamp.
This unusual six-legged lamp was made by artype design out of the UK and while it doesn’t actually walk, it looks like it could and that’s good enough for us. Can you imagine this thing walking around your home and lighting whatever area you needed illuminated? That’d be cool.
Of course it would trip you with the cord and kill you, but at least you had a nice lamp for your final days on Earth.
[via Obvious Winner]
Sep 24
State-issued currency is the scaffolding upon which capitalism was built, but it’s always been prone to mayhem. For instance in 1920s Germany, extreme inflation forced German businesses to actually print millions of their own customized paper bills. Now largely forgotten, this notgeld, or "emergency money," was once ubiquitous—amounting to an ornately-decorated I.O.U. in Weimar Germany.
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Sep 24
I personally don’t have a bedside lamp as my wife is the kind of person who likes to keep as much light out of the bedroom as possible. That means my usual pajamas completely covered in Christmas lights is not welcome in our bedroom, and neither is a lamp. But, if a lamp was welcome to my bedroom, I would certainly like it to use the power of my iPhone’s flash in order to illuminate whatever it is I need light for. (more…)
iPhone Dock Concept Turns Your Phone Into A Bedside Lamp original content from Ubergizmo. 
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